Stepan The Internet-Famous Cat Escapes Ukraine Finds Safety

lexicons.ruid="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV">























Stepan is pure vibes. He's a 13-year-old tabby cat with more than a million followers on TikTok who relish videos of him cooly leaning against a counter with a drink, while colored lights dance on the wall, looking like his night out at the club is winding down.
Stepan is also Ukrainian, which means his life and the life of his favorite human, who goes by Anna on the app, have been utterly upended since the began Feb. 24. While days before the war started he was posing for his Instagram page with a and the TV remote, he disappeared for two weeks (prompting concerned comments), and now has resurfaced on Instagram with a post detailing he and his owner's escape to safety in France. 

"We realized that the war had come to our house," a Wednesday post reads. 

@valentino
reported in December that Stepan found fame after Britney Spears reposted one of his videos, and that his owner originally adopted him off the street as a kitten. He even did a post in November with a $2,800 Valentino purse. 

see this page week, a post outlined the kind of harrowing escape that's become all-too familiar when reporters talk to Ukrainians on the news. 


Anna is just one of more than streaming out of Ukraine in the last few weeks. It's the largest influx of displaced people since World War II and neighboring countries like Poland are struggling to keep up with what's mainly been a sea of women and children escaping war, as men stay back to fight. 

💔
30 dogs and cats</a> from shelters in into Poland.

For Stepan and Www.construaprende.com his owner, help came at the border from members of the World Influencers and Bloggers Association, a global group for influencers. The organization didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. 

"They helped us get to France to wait for the very day when we could return home. We're all right now. We worry very much about our relatives in Ukraine and will do the very best we can to help our country," Anna wrote on Instagram. 

On Instagram, there are more than 14,000 comments on the most recent post alone, including messages like, "Sending love to Stepan and family," "I've been so worried," and "Stay safe."